BAGHDAD, Feb 14 (Saba) - Iraq's long-oppressed Shiite majority scored a resounding victory in the first vote since Saddam Hussein's downfall,

WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Saba)-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is to address an international security conference after a day which

LUXEMBOURG, Feb 10 (Saba) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged North Korea to return to talks on its nuclear arms drive but

BAGHDAD, Feb 06 (Saba) - An Islamic militant group in Iraq claimed responsibility for kidnapping an Italian journalist and

RAMALLAH, Feb 2 (Saba) - New Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accepted an invitation to pay an official visit to Iran,

KHARTOUM, Jan 30 (Saba) - Police clashed with tribesmen Sunday in the Red Sea coastal city of Port Sudan, leaving at least 14 people dead

JERUSALEM, Jan 28 (Saba) - The Israeli army announced on Friday it was scaling back its operations in the Gaza Strip following the

BAQUBA, Jan 17 (Saba) - Insurgents detonated a suicide car bomb at police headquarters in the Iraqi town of Baiji on Monday, killing at

GAZA CITY, Jan 12 (Saba) - An Israeli soldier was killed and another wounded Wednesday in an attack on a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army said .

BAGHDAD, Dec 25 (Saba)- A gas tanker truck wired with explosives blew up in a west Baghdad neighborhood Friday, killing two persons, wounding

BAGHDAD, Dec 15 (Saba)- Iraq's Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan accused Iran of orchestrating terrorist attacks in Iraq, saying its neighbor country was the "most dangerous enemy of Iraq".

GAZA CITY, Dec 13 (Saba) - Five Israeli soldiers were killed when Palestinian militants blew up a tunnel under an army

BAQOUBA , Dec 12 (Saba) - U.S. soldiers and Iraqi police detained more than 50 Iraqis in several raids targeting insurgents in the

BAGHDAD, Dec 11 (Saba) - A U.S. soldier is expected to be sentenced after being found guilty of murder for shooting to death a severely wounded Iraqi civilian.

SAMARRA, Dec 8 (Saba) - Three Iraqis were killed on Wednesday when a suicide car bomber attacked a U.S. convoy in the northern city of Samarra, a local police official said.

BAGHDAD, Dec 4 (Saba)- At least 26 people have been killed in two insurgent attacks in Baghdad, raising fears that unrest will mar Iraq's January elections as the US military

BAGHDAD, Nov 27 (Saba) - Leading Iraqi politicians called Friday for a six-month delay in the Jan. 30 election because of the

TEHRAN, Nov 2 (Saba) - President Mohammad Khatami said on Tuesday he was optimistic talks with the European Union would yield a solution to the dispute over Iran's nuclear

TEL AVIV, Nov 1 (Saba) - A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded outdoor market in central Tel Aviv on Monday, killing at least four bystanders and wounding 32,

CAIRO, Oct 30 (Saba) - Osama bin Laden, in a statement directed to the American people days before the presidential election, says the United States must stop threatening the